‘The gatekeeper’ - Okta expands AI agent controls, with ambitions beyond security?
Okta has announced new capabilities for discovering AI agents running on employee devices, governing their connections across applications and cutting off their access when things go wrong. Unveiled at its Oktane event in Las Vegas today, the updates to Okta for AI Agents sit alongside Agent SSO and a new Blueprint Alliance, bringing together vendors including AWS, Google Cloud, Salesforce and ServiceNow around a shared architecture for securing agents.
The questions for buyers deploying agents often include: where are my agents, what can they access, what are they doing and how do I stop them? Unsurprisingly, these questions get harder to answer as agents spread across teams, applications and as more complex interactions take place. Okta’s argument is that the identity practices organizations already apply to people offer a starting point to tackle this complexity.
Speaking with me at Oktane in Las Vegas this week, Ric Smith, President of...
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